18 Because the account about the execution on a stake seems just stupid to non-believers, but on the contrary to us being saved, it’s God’s power, 19 because it was written:[ref]

‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,

and I will nullify the understanding of the intelligent.’

20 Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God turned the wisdom of the world into foolishness?[ref]

21 Because since the world, in God’s wisdom, didn’t know about God through their wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the ‘foolish’ message that was preached. 22 Jews ask for miraculous signs and Greeks search for wisdom, 23 but we preach about how Messiah was executed—something the Jews can’t logic out, and which the Greeks see as total foolishness. 24 Yet to those who God calls, whether Jews or Greeks, Messiah is both God’s power and his wisdom, 25 because God’s foolishness is better than humankind’s wisdom, and God’s weakness is greater than humankind’s strength.

26 So brothers and sisters, think about how God called you. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, and not many were of noble birth, 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world to shame those considered to be wise, and he chose the weak things of the world to shame those considered to be strong. 28 He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no human can boast to God. 30 But because of him, you are in Messiah Yeshua, who was made to become wisdom from God for us, and to become righteousness, and also sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as per the scriptures: ‘Let anyone who boasts, boast about the master.’[ref]